{"product_id":"oblivion-banjo-charles-wright-9780374539085","title":"Oblivion Banjo: The Poetry of Charles Wright","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eThe selected works of one of our finest American poets\u003c\/b\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003ci\u003eThe thread that dangles us \u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003ebetween a dark and a darker dark, \u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eIs luminous, sure, but smooth sided. \u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eDon't touch it here, and don't touch it there. \u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eDon't touch it, in fact, anywhere--\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eLet it dangle and hold us hard, let it flash and swing.\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e--from \"Scar Tissue\" \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eOver the course of his work--more than twenty books in total--Charles Wright has built \"one of the truly distinctive bodies of poetry created in the second half of the twentieth century\" (David Young, \u003ci\u003eContemporary Poets\u003c\/i\u003e). \u003ci\u003eOblivion Banjo\u003c\/i\u003e, a capacious new selection spanning his decades-long career, showcases the central themes of Wright's poetry: \"language, landscape, and the idea of God.\" No matter the precise subject of each poem, on display here is a vast and rich interior life, a mind wrestling with the tenuous relationship between the ways we describe the world and its reality. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eThe recipient of almost every honor in poetry--the Pulitzer Prize, the National Book Award, and the Bollingen Prize, to name a few--and a former poet laureate of the United States, Wright is an essential voice in American letters. \u003ci\u003eOblivion Banjo\u003c\/i\u003e is the perfect distillation of his inimitable career--for devout fans and newcomers alike.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/b\u003e Charles Wright\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-10:\u003c\/b\u003e 0374539081\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-13:\u003c\/b\u003e 9780374539085\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e Farrar, Straus and Giroux\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eLanguage:\u003c\/b\u003e English\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 12\/01\/2020\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 784\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eFormat:\u003c\/b\u003e Paperback\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 2.10lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 8.70h x 5.60w x 1.40d","brand":"Charles Wright","offers":[{"title":"Paperback","offer_id":44046489387263,"sku":"9780374539085","price":37.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0662\/2982\/9887\/files\/img_a6578d5e-7c27-41d2-827a-ca4e9afabe04.jpg?v=1684984844","url":"https:\/\/www.whiterainbookhouse.com\/products\/oblivion-banjo-charles-wright-9780374539085","provider":"WR Book House","version":"1.0","type":"link"}